In-between 9 - Cana Bilir-Meier

In-between 1-9
Spaces of possibility
2024

In-between 9
Cana Bilir-Meier
(Space of Possibility)

Cana Bilir-Meier
Talya Feldman
Yulia Lokshina
(film programme)

Exhibition from 15 November to 12 December 2024
Opening Thursday, 14 November 2024, 6 pm to 9 pm

In 2024, 'Being in-between' provides the conceptual superstructure for nine short, individual artistic presentations that explore the theme in its various aspects. Being in-between can be a thought, a state or even a feeling. We want to understand being in-between as a possibility to see more and to grasp different perspectives at the same time.

How can we tell, remember and continue to write our own stories through poems, body movements, rituals, dance and music? Can memory be stored in the body and how can we pass it on to future generations? Based on the play Düşler Ülkesi from 1982 by Erman Okay, which looks at the everyday experiences, hopes and wishes of migrants in Germany, we would like to take up themes from the play in this performance, enter into dialogue with them and reflect on them further.

At the invitation of artist Cana Bilir-Meier, the four Munich-based performers İlayda Akbaba, Nihan Devecioğlu, Sezgin İnceel and Serdar Yolcu will share their perspectives on remembering, resilience and not forgetting with the audience in various performances using dance, music, sound and bodywork at the opening of the exhibition.

Film programme in the Possibility Space by the 'Initiative in Remembrance of Yaya Jabbi'

Cana Bilir-Meier (*1986 in Munich) lives and works in Munich and Vienna. She studied art and digital media as well as film and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She works as a filmmaker and artist as well as in art and cultural education projects. Her filmic, performative and text-based works operate at the interfaces between archive work, text production, historical research, contemporary media reflexivity and archaeology. She is co-founder of the initiative in memory of Semra Ertan and co-editor of the poetry collection 'Mein Name ist Ausländer - Benim Adım Yabancı'. In 2021, she was a substitute professor for art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

Dialogue partner: Simon Biallowons (*1984) is a trained philosopher, journalist and author. He has worked as a reporter all over the world and his books primarily deal with philosophical and religious-spiritual topics. He worked as a correspondent in Rome, lived in the Middle East and reported as a reporter for various media in many countries. Biallowons is the author of several bestsellers and is currently managing director and chief editor of Herder Verlag.

Talya Feldman (*1990, Denver, Colorado) is a time-based media artist from Denver, Colorado. She earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a PhD candidate at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. She has exhibited in Chicago, New York, Hamburg, Halle (Saale), Frankfurt and Berlin. Feldman was awarded the 2021 DAGESH Art Prize for her sound installation 'The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin and has received worldwide recognition for her projects against right-wing terror in collaboration with activist and research-based networks.

Yulia Lokshina (*1986 in Moscow, Russia) studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her film and video works deal with the interference of social environments and their protagonists. Her graduation film - both an artistic and political project - 'Rules on the conveyor belt, at high speed' deals with temporary work and labour migration from Eastern Europe to Germany, questions of social participation and class consciousness and was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for the best documentary film in 2020. Her work asks critically: How do we talk about things that concern us? Who is responsible for what? What becomes an issue? She works in the border area of film and science at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft Bonn, as well as in open formations with artist friends.

Film programme
Cana Bilir-Meier
This Makes Me Want to Predict The Past, 2019
Super 8 film, digitised, 16 minutes
Cana Bilir-Meier (director), Aleyna Osmanoğlu and Sosuna Yıldız (protagonists), Lichun Tseng (camera), Zühal Bilir-Meier (casting director), Nihan Devecioğlu (music)

'This Makes Me Want to Predict The Past' portrays two young women at Munich's Olympia shopping centre, which was the scene of a racist attack in 2016 in which nine people were murdered and many more injured. Cana Bilir-Meier's film shows the Kurdish and Turkish girls Sosuna Yildiz, Aleyna Osmanoğlu and Berfin Ünsal as they pass the time in and around the OEZ, riding escalators or trying on clothes and accessories. In addition to their everyday explorations, the young people re-enact scenes from the theatre play 'Düşler Ülkesi' (Land of Dreams). The premiere of the play in 1982 was overshadowed by a bomb threat. The contradiction in the film's title of wanting to predict the past is a reference to the continuous experience of racism, but can also be read as a playful suggestion to break out of familiar patterns of thought and behaviour - conveyed in the film by YouTube comments on Childish Gambino's song 'Redbone'.

Talya Feldman
Elegy, 2020
Single channel video, 6 minutes
Tirza Ben-Zvi (dance & choreography), Christiany Erler, Paul McKenzie, Muhammad Nouman (voices),
Text from statements by survivors, Halle
In memory of Jana L. & Kevin S.

'Elegy' is an artistic examination of the right-wing extremist terrorist attack on the synagogue in Halle during the highest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, on 9 October 2019. Talya Feldman was in the synagogue herself at the time. The starting point for her work 'Elegy' is her own experience, which she combines with the thoughts and voices of other survivors. The video shows a solo performance by dancer and choreographer Tirza Ben-Zvi accompanied by a poem that quotes fragments of the thoughts of the survivors of the attack and combines them with prolonged, monotonous synthesiser sounds. Christiany Erler, Paul McKenzie and Muhammad Nouman lend their voices to the survivors. The interplay of the three media forms - sound, dance and poetry - provides an answer to the question that the artist formulated in an mdr radio interview after the traumatic experience as follows: "How can we link individual experiences with collective or global experiences? How can we overcome borders and languages?"

Yulia Lokshina
Days of Youth, Germany, 2016
Film, 30 minutes
Zeno Legner (camera), Philipp Scholz and Andrew Mottl (sound), Yulia Lokshina and Manon Falise (editing), wirFILM Bertolone & Ehlayil and HFF Munich (production), Isabelle Bertolone, Marius Ehlayil and Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF) (producers)

A patriotic summer camp for children and young people has been held on Sakhalin every summer for years. It is organised by former army men, Afghanistan and Chechnya veterans who want to pass on their knowledge of discipline, armed combat, martial honour and love of country to the youngsters. The documentary film accompanies some of the young people during the days of the summer camp in this remote island landscape. Their activities, friendships, experiences, dreams and hopes.

Programme
Opening with performance
Thursday, 14 November 2024, 6 pm to 9 pm
7 pm
Welcome and introduction
Performance with İlayda Akbaba, Cana Bilir-Meier, Nihan Devecioğlu, Sezgin İnceel and Serdar Yolcu

Workshop with the dancer, choreographer and political scientist Serdar Yolcu
Wednesday, 20 November 2024, 4 to 5.30 pm
Cana Bilir-Meier in conversation with Serdar Yolcu, 6 pm

Artist talk
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 7 pm

Finissage with music
Thursday, 12 December 2024, 7 pm

Dazwischensein is a project in cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the Uri Institute Cultures of the Alps and the Lucerna Foundation. With the kind support of the Curt Wills Foundation and the sponsorship of the Verein Ausstellungshaus für christliche Kunst e.V., Munich. The project was made possible by the BBK - Verbindungslinien funding programme with funds from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts. The exhibition architecture was created in co-operation with the treibgut Materialinitiative.

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Last edited on 13.12.2024